IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF TERRITORIAL AND LANDSCAPE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS TO PROMOTE URBAN LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN BRAZIL

Abstract

Connectivity plays an essential role in the urban landscape, facilitating the movement of organisms, genetic exchange, and other ecological flows that are fundamental to the survival of species and the provision of ecosystem services on which humans depend. To promote and restore connectivity and efficiently protect biodiversity, it is necessary, among other things, to develop and apply tools, which, when it comes to territorial and landscape planning and management, can be of various natures and have various classifications in terms of their potential to influence the activities of the agents that shape the territory and the landscape. Based on these premises, this article aims to identify and analyze, through bibliographic and documentary research, some of these instruments, especially those that can contribute to maintaining and restoring the connectivity of the urban landscape and the conservation of Brazilian biodiversity. It is hoped that this study can help public managers, urban planners, landscape architects and other related professionals to develop and implement instruments for this purpose in the practice of territorial and landscape planning and management.